Resumen de European Commission: Public consultation on neighbouring rights for publishers and panorama exception
On 23 March 2016, the European Commission launched an open, online consultation concerning two topics of EU copyright law. On the one hand, the purpose of the consultation is to seek views on the possible extension of the neighbouring rights to publishers. On the other hand, the Commission aims to gather views on the panorama exception, which concerns the use of images depicting buildings, sculptures and monuments. The consultation is part of the Commission’s Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy, aimed to create an EU single market which fits the digital age (see IRIS 2015-6/3). In particular, one of the DSM strategy’s objectives is to modernise the EU copyright rules (see IRIS 2016-2/3).
